Sentences with phrase «single plane of motion»

In real life, especially sports, movements do not occur along a single joint or a single plane of motion.

If you constantly perform exercises with a short range of motion in a single plane of motion, your muscles will be shortened, your joints will be less than optimally mobile and functional, and eventually your performance will suffer.

Not exact matches

Hang a weight on the end of an 18 - inch string and set it in motion like a pendulum, moving back and forth horizontally in a single plane (its speed gradually accelerates as it approaches the center and decelerates again as it reaches the top at the other end).

The bag allows you to move in all three planes of motion during a single exercise.

Traditional PNF techniques involve doing the stretches in diagonal or spiral motions to promote movement through various planes of motion, while contract - relax movement patterns tend to involve single - joint motion through one plane (see the sidebar «Proposed Mechanisms of PNF Stretching: The Controversy»).